Matthew Garrett is a Linux kernel developer and is well-known for his work on power management. He is an employee of Red Hat. He has a PhD in biology.
Matthew has made feminist commentary on several anti-feminist incidents in the Free Software community:
His How not to be a dick rant at LUGRadio Live was discussed in feminist blogs (for example, see transcript and a discussion at Hoyden About Town).
Criticism
- The attention paid to Matthew's feminist ally work relative to the work of women feminists in Free Software has been negatively commented on:
"...people seem to listen to him/quote him/use him as an example regularly, because his words are more powerful, because he has a mighty penis. I wish any of the excellent resources on this subject WRITTEN BY WOMEN got half the attention his rant did." [1]